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Dale Kesley was a simple farmer in the Iowa province of the North American empire when van Arlen found him. He'd been looking for the young man for four years and came to take him to Antarctica. Coincidentally, Dale couldn't remember much of his life before four years before. Antarctica is the thirteenth empire set up after the world had nearly destroyed itself in a nuclear war. In order to recover and rebuild the world had agreed to a simpler life....
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Life has spread across the stars, and everyone enjoys a long life. However, only those who are Earth-born are truly immortal.But what happens when the immortals of Earth are suddenly faced with their ultimate destruction?Hanosz Prime, a near-immortal (though not truly so, not being of true Earth stock) travels to humanity's ancient home to discover the ultimate answer to humanity's end.A grand new adventure by a Grand Master of science fiction, a...
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ISSUE 25: March 2017
Mike Resnick, Editor
Taylor Morris, Copyeditor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories by: Samantha Murray, Sunil Patel, Kay Kenyon, George Nikolopoulos, Andrea G. Stewart, Kevin J. Anderson, Alex Shvartsman, Brennan Harvey, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Yaroslav Barsukov, Tina Gower, Robert Silverberg.
Serialization: Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein
Columns by: Barry Malzberg, Gregory Benford
Recommended Books: Jody Lynn Nye and Bill...
25) Starborne
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Is utopia a death sentence for mankind? Does living in a perfect world destroy what makes us human?Fifty men and women, living perfect lives, decide to give it all up to embark on the adventure of a lifetime.Equipped with enough genetic material to populate a new planet, these fifty set out to travel to the farthest reaches of the galaxy, with their only link to home a fragile telepathic bond between a blind crew member and her sister back home.Starborne...
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An alien race makes a chilling first impression in this story that "evokes difficult moral issues" from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author (SF Site).
A corporate ship's complicated business venture involves the experimental use of new technology to scoop a sample from the core of a neutron star. The discovery of a dead civilization on a nearby solar system serves as a fascinating distraction. The same can't be said for the alien spaceship...
28) Planet of Death
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Earthman Roy Crawford is framed for murder on the planet Velliran. He has two choices. He must escape from the planet within three days or go to prison for life.
But the only spaceship leaving the planet within three days belongs to the Exploration Corps. This is a group of scientists which investigates new planets. They are about to leave for World Seven on the Star System Z-16.
With help from his friends, the dazed Crawford finds himself
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Tom Rand, a practical engineer, and two other men are the only survivors of a spaceship explosion. Marooned on a hostile planet, they are being held captive by a group of "aliens." Their one slim chance of survival is to reach a rescue beacon placed on the planet years before by men from Earth.
Can the three survivors escape what seems like certain, immediate death? And if they do, can they make their way through a jungle filled with untold dangers
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A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 19: March 2016
Mike Resnick, Editor
Jean Rabe, Assistant Editor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories by: Sylvia Spruck Wrigley, Larry Hodges, Robert Silverberg, Steve Pantazis, Dantzel Cherry, Jean Rabe, Ian Whates, Janis Ian, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Sunil Patel, David Drake, Kary English, Robert B Finegold, M.D.
Serialization: The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett
Columns by: Barry Malzberg, Gregory Benford
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With a new introduction by author Robert Silverberg, and the first-ever map of Borthan, this Nebula Award-winning classic sci-fi novel A Time of Changes, out of print since 1992, will delight fans of dystopian fiction
In the far future, Earth is a worn-out backwater and humanity is spread across the galaxy on worlds that began as colonies, but now feel like home, each with its own long history of a thousand years or more, and each with its own unique...
32) Thorns
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In a world where humanity has colonized the solar system and begun to explore more of the local galaxy, a vast audience follows real-life stories presented by wealthy media mogul Duncan Chalk. Chalk feeds on the pained emotions of others. He plays cruelly with his staff, but gorges on the mass emotions generated by the dramas he orchestrates. Chalk pairs Minner Burris, an emotionally withdrawn space explorer who was captured and freakishly surgically...
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Several decades into the future, the long series of corporate and government decisions that favored short-term profit over long-term solutions to ecological problems and polution has left the Eath in a state of disaster, almost uninhabitable. The icecap have melted and many coastal communities have been flooded out. The ozone layer is destroyed. There are some areas that are livable with breathing masks and injections that protect the skin from the...
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When Ben Bova sold his original science fiction anthology, The Many Worlds of Science Fiction in 1969, he invited Robert Silverberg to contribute to it. Silverberg penned "Something Wild Is Loose" in the final weeks of 1969, just after completing his psychedelic SF novel Son of Man.
35) Lord Prestimion
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As a devastating war is forgotten, an all-consuming madness takes its place in this epic sci-fi fantasy series from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author.
Destined to rule over Majipoor, Prince Prestimion was shocked to see a charismatic rival usurp his throne. Only after a bloody conflict consumed the entire planet did he emerge victorious. Now, after finally attaining the Starburst Crown, Prestimion orders a spell of oblivion to erase the...
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In the sequel to Lord Valentine's Castle, the history of Majipoor is revealed through thrilling tales of rulers, warriors, murderers, and thieves. "If you like tales with an Arabian Nights piquancy, this book belongs in your hands." -The Washington Post Book World
Lord Valentine has claimed the title of Coronal, ruling over the gigantic planet of Majipoor. Yet he still remembers Hissune, the boy who aided him in his time of wandering, and gives...
37) Up the Line
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It's 2059, and former law clerk Jud Elliott finds himself at loose ends-until a chance meeting with a Time Courier gives him the inspiration to become one himself. The job-as a time-traveling guide-gives him the opportunity to indulge his love of Byzantine history, in between shuttling tourists to such monumental events as the crucifixion and the assassination of JFK.
But there are strict rules to follow as a Time Courier, put in place to guard...
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For some people, one personality is just never enough. A story of duplicity from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of Lord Valentine's Castle.
Slowly, a climate of acceptance has been growing for people with divided personalities, especially in big cities like San Francisco. There are clubs with mirrors and lights that help people to switch and double, maybe even triple. When, like Cleo, you feel your world has become stale and cramped,...
39) The Alien Years
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The Entities have arrived on Earth, fifteen feet tall with impenetrable defenses and inscrutable motives. As conquerors, they have no demands, no explanations, simply harsh consequences should they be challenged. Releasing a plague and plunging the world into a new Dark Age, the Entities seem unbeatable. But, one family at least-the Carmichael clan led by Colonel Anson Carmichael-will never give up the resistance. THE ALIEN YEARS is an epic story...
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Three thrilling adventures from Science Fiction Grand Master Robert Silverberg As a young man, Robert Silverberg was a science fiction prodigy, turning out top-flight stories in the blink of an eye. Though written quickly, Silverberg's early prose already showed evidence of the literary and imaginative qualities that would make him a giant in the field-as this trio of space adventures attests. In The Chalice of Death, Hallam Navarre is tasked...
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